Flesh-reducing garment



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FLESH-REDUCING GARMENT.

Application filed may 17, 1922. Serial Ito. 561,775.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LILLIAN M. Brennan, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Flesh-Reducing Garments, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to that class W of garments intended to be worn by those afiicted with obesity for the reduction thereof and consequent improvement in figure and health.

Broadly, the object of the invention is to provide a simple and readily adjustable garment of the character designated of onepiece construction from sheet-rubber, or similar moisture-impervious elastic substance,

shaping the same, over a properly prepared mold, to conform in contour to that of the female figure in the abdominal region, and, while on mold, subjecting it to a baking process to insure its retaining the form thus obtained.

A further object sought is to improve upon my Patent No. 1,361,220, of December 7, 1920.

With

these, and other, ends in view, this invention consists of certain constructional details and adaptations and combinations of component parts of a garment as hereinafter described and more pa icularly set forth in the claims appended reto.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and in which similar reference characters designate like parts, throughout, Figure 1 is a perspective view, showing the garment in position upon a female form and the means for its adjustable securement thereabout.

Figure 2 is a view of the interior of the back portion of the garment; and

Figure 3 is a broken view of the interior surface of the front portion of the arment. Referring with greater particu arityto the drawings, 1 represents the elastic body ortion of the garment as molded to con-, aim to the contour of a personsabdomen and hips; 2 the edges of the front opening of W the garment to which are secured the means for adjustably securing the/garment about the body; 3 an impervious to moisture flexible flap extending across the front opening of the garment to complete the perfect envelopment of that portion of the body to which it is applied; 4 rubberized fabric strips secured to each edge of the front opening of the garment and 5 the eyelets therein; 6 rubberized fa ric strips vertically disposed on the interior surface of the back portion of the garment; 7 fabric stay pockets sewed, or otherwise secured, onto all of the rubberized strips; 8 rubberized fabric garter tabs cemented to the lower edge of the body portion of the arment; 9 reinforced sections of the ho y ortion of the garment to which the rub erized fabric garter tabs are directly cemented; and 10 extremities of garters in attachmentv with garter tabs.

in the embodiment of my invention, as herein illustrated, there is shown a garment of thetype intended to embrace and compress the body in the abdominal and hip regions, though it is obvious that the garment could be extended to include the brassiere feature without in the least departing from the spirit of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent as new is:

1. A flesh reducing garment comprising a one-piece body of sheet material molded to conform to the contour of that portion of the body which it is intended to enclose, strips of rubberized fabric material adhesively attached to the body portion and extending vertically thereof, fabric pockets attached to the strips and reinforcing means in said pockets.

2. A. flesh reducing garment comprising a one-piece body of sheet material molded to conform to the contour of that of rubberized fabric material vulcanized to the body ortion and extending vertically thereof, fa ric pockets attached to the strips and reinforcing means in said pockets,

3. A flesh reducin garment comprising a; one-piece body of eet rubber adapted to conform to and comprms the body of the wearer, said body portion having a vertical ortion of i the body which it is intended to enc ose, strips 27 1,47s,0ee

opening extending the entire length thereof, fabric material adhesively attached to the a strip of rubber attached to one edge of the body portion of the garment and extending opening and adapted to extend across the vertically thereof, fabric pockets attached 10 opening, rubberized fabric strips adhesively to the last named strips, and reinforcing attached to the opposed edges of the openmeans in said pockets.

ing, eyelet bearing strips secured to said rubberized fabric strips, strips of rubberized LILLIAN M. BENDER. 

